How and where to start
09-13-2016 | 01:36 PM
#26
Senior Member
My point on not flying as well was directed at the thousands of sheet foam plans readily available on the internet. A flat plate wing isn't going to fly like a properly profiled airfoil wing will. Sure, if we are comparing apples to apples and a new pilot invests in a foam cutter and starts working on the skills to make good wings, he can experiment a lot for very little money. But that's not usually the case.
In fact, flat plate wings don't have to stay aloft and respond to input through the same principles "real airfoils" do. But the planes my guys have used and are using really do the job of flying like a trainer. When some of them moved on to aerobatics, they discovered that built up wings did that lots better. But almost every "grad" I can remember did of course move to bigger planes. And that's where flat foamies run out of capability. But has nothing to do with learning to fly on a budget.
